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Seriously?? H1-B visas for fashion models?? (from Melania Trump story)
One version of the Melania story has that she initially came here on an H1-B visa. You know, the visa that is supposed to be for "highly skilled workers" so that America can create scientific and technical innovations, or something?
Sorry, I don't see fashion modeling as in that category. Although I detest the way I see the H-1B visa program currently being abused, I'm actually not totally opposed to it on a much more limited level, for truly accomplished and unique talents in STEM fields. I just don't see fashion modeling as being relevant in that way.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3726787/New-questions-raised-Slovenian-model-U-S-citizen-attorney-Donald-lets-slip-earned-green-card-based-marriage-four-years-wed-GOP-nominee.html
Most models use H1-B3 visas. Models seeking H1-B3s must be 'of distinguished merit or ability' - they do not have to be graduates, unlike most other H1-B applicants.
I would REALLY like to hear Clinton say that she wants to seriously look at the use and abuse of the H1-B visa program.
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In 2008, for reasons that may or may not be clearer now, Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, launched a small crusade to bring more foreign models into the country amid of a flurry of activity in Congress on immigration reform. Specifically, he sponsored a bill that would have shifted models over to O-1 visas and given them a special quota of around 1,000 visas a year.
The bill would’ve satisfied both supermodels and startups and even attracted bipartisan support. Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican immigration hardliner from Texas, told the Los Angeles Times that he could see Weiner, then single, “in a posh downtown New York City hotel celebrating the passage of this bill surrounded by hundreds of energized, wildly ecstatic fashion models. And you know for a fact he’s going to have an annual celebration. It’s almost too much to bear.”
The bill would’ve satisfied both supermodels and startups and even attracted bipartisan support. Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican immigration hardliner from Texas, told the Los Angeles Times that he could see Weiner, then single, “in a posh downtown New York City hotel celebrating the passage of this bill surrounded by hundreds of energized, wildly ecstatic fashion models. And you know for a fact he’s going to have an annual celebration. It’s almost too much to bear.”
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They just had to take a shot, didn't they.
